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Listening is an Act of Love:

The first-ever animated feature from StoryCorps celebrates the transformative power of listening. Listening Is an Act of Love: A StoryCorps Special presents six stories from 10 years of the innovative oral history project, where everyday people sit down together to ask life’s important questions. Framing these intimate conversations from across the country is an interview between StoryCorps founder Dave Isay and his nine-year-old nephew, Benji, animated in the inimitable style of The Rauch Brothers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rgJRzz_zHo&feature=youtu.be

Wake up Call: Have you ever felt like we are living through a nightmare of consumption? That you wish you could un-hook and reconnect with a life that is somehow more real and vivid? Then perhaps you are ready to heed Earth’s wake up call: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jid2A7ldc_8

How Playing an instrument benefits your brain: When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain become engaged and active. But when you actually play an instrument, that activity becomes more like a full-body brain workout. What’s going on? Anita Collins explains the fireworks that go off in musicians’ brains when they play, and examines some of the long-term positive effects of this mental workout. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0JKCYZ8hng

Violence against women- It is a men’s issue: Domestic violence and sexual abuse are often called “women’s issues.” But in this bold, blunt talk, Jackson Katz points out that these are intrinsically men’s issues — and shows how these violent behaviors are tied to definitions of manhood. A clarion call for us all — women and men — to call out unacceptable behavior and be leaders of change. http://www.ted.com/talks/jackson_katz_violence_against_women_it_s_a_men_s_issue?language=en

Crazy circle Illusion: A beautiful illustration on how our actions are interconnected and on how our actions could create a beautiful circle of coordination and cooperation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNe6fsaCVtI

A Useful Idea: We live in a complex and continuously changing world, which requires us and the organizations we work in to change along with it. But change is hard, and most of us aren’t very good at it. This short video introduces a different approach to change with an unexpected example: Charlie, a theater director. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nkZmo4IElM#t=13

The danger of a single story: Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice — and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding. http://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story